Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
　　Section A
　　1. D) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.
　　2. A) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation 
　　3. B) Peaches are not at their best now. 
　　4. C) They work on the assignment together. 
　　5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness
　　6. A) He liked writing when he was a child 
　　7. D) He does not study hard enough 
　　8. C) It will be very difficult for them to find John 
　　9. A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world 
　　10. B) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments
　　Section B 
　　Passage One
　　11. C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum
　　12. D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner
　　13. A) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only
　　Passage Two
　　14. A) By making laws 
　　15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand 
　　16. D) It should be carried high up in the air 
　　17. C) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed 
　　Passage Three 
　　18. C) Truancy 
　　19. D) Students with good attendance records 
　　20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction 

　　Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
　　Passage one 
　　21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.
　　22. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause
　　23. A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents
　　24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child
　　25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding. 
　　Passage Two 
　　26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.
　　27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns
　　28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor
　　29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life
　　30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.
　　Passage Three
　　31. B) The reduction of public expenditure.
　　32. C) obtain funding from the government 
　　33. A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.
　　34. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned
　　35. B) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.
Passage Four 
　　36. D) the globalization of economy 
　　37. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions 
　　38. C) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution
　　39. A) can eliminate an entire business segment 
　　40. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed 

　　Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
　　41. C) absurd
　　42. C) entitled
　　43. D) flushed 
　　44. C) abolished
　　45. B) out of stock
　　46. C) luminous
　　47. A) comply
　　48. D) erase
　　49. C) scrutiny
　　50. A) ascribed
　　51. B) decent
　　52. C) finite
　　53. C) defy
　　54. A) suppress
　　55. D) rectify
　　56. C) irritated
　　57. C) deficit
　　58. B) impose
　　59. D) stimulus
　　60. D) cherish
　　61. C) blank
　　62. A) tucked
　　63. B) obscure
　　64. A) by analogy
　　65. B) hinged upon
　　66. C) by means of 
　　67. D) exclusive
　　68. D) abnormal
　　69. C) recession
　　70. C) deafened

　　Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
　　S1. in first 改 in the first 
　　S2．ultimate 改ultimately
　　S3. acceptance 改unacceptance
　　S4.avoid end 改 ending 
　　S5.stand out 改 upon 
　　S6.pick up改 pick out 
　　S7.listing改 list 
　　S8.keep up改 keep 
　　S9.taking 改 taken